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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 116

of one penny in the pound on the rateable value of all rate-
able property in Class "C," all of which classes and the
lands therein, together with their rateable values as appearing
on the valuation roll of the district, are set out in the classi-
fication list of the Elstow No. 2 Special Rating Area; and
that such special rates shall be annually recurring rates
during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly
on the first day of September and the first day of March
in each and every year during the currency of the loan,
being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the
loan is fully paid off.

Boundaries of Special Rating Area.
All that area comprising the Elstow Drainage District
as published in the New Zealand Gazette under date 29th
March, 1917, page 1120.
Dated at Waihou this 17th day of August, 1918.
W. R. JOHNSON,
Clerk, Elstow Drainage Board.
I hereby certify that the above resolution was passed at
a meeting of the Elstow Drainage Board properly consti-
tuted and held at Waihou on Saturday, the seventeenth day
of August, 1918. In testimony whereof the common seal
of the Elstow Drainage Board is hereto affixed, set and
impressed in the presence of—
J. A. CLOTHIER, Chairman.
V. G. R. HAMILTON, Trustee.

CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD.

SPECIAL ORDER FIXING SPECIAL RATE, AND DELEGATING
THE MAKING, LEVYING, AND COLLECTION OF THE SAME.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
this behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and
amendments, the Christchurch Tramway District Act, 1906,
and the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Act,
1912, and in exercise of all other powers it hereunto enabling,
the Christchurch Tramway Board (hereinafter referred to as
“the Board”) doth by special order hereby resolve as
follows, that is to say:
That, for the purpose of providing for payment of interest,
sinking fund, and charges in respect of the loan of fifteen
thousand pounds (£15,000) raised by the Board in con-
nection with the tramway undertaking installed for the
benefit of the St. Martin’s Special Rating Area, and for pro-
viding for the repayment to the Board of the sum of six
hundred and seven pounds one shilling and sevenpence
(£607 Is. 7d.), being the amount of deficiency under section 2,
subsection (i), of the Christchurch Tramway District Amend-
ment Act, 1912, for the year ending the thirty-first day of
March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, in respect
of the said tramway undertaking installed for the benefit
of the St. Martin’s Special Rating Area, the said Christchurch
Tramway Board doth hereby fix a special rate of 0·6d. in the
pound (being a special rate of 0·595d. in the pound in respect
of the said interest and sinking fund, and a special rate of
0·005d. in the pound in respect of the balance of the said
deficiency, including charges) upon the rateable value of all
rateable property according to the capital rateable value
thereof of and in the St. Martin’s Tramway Special Rating
Area as defined in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-
seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and
thirteen, at pages 724 and 725; and that such special rate
of 0·6d. in the pound be payable on the first day of October,
one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
And, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers
aforesaid, the said Christchurch Tramway Board doth hereby
further resolve that the Christchurch City Council be and
it is hereby directed and authorized, for and on behalf of the
Board, to make, levy, and collect the said special rate of
0·6d. in the pound as aforesaid in respect of the said rateable
property in that part of the said St. Martin’s Tramway
Special Rating Area as lies within the jurisdiction of the said
Christchurch City Council; and that the Heathcote County
Council be and it is hereby directed and authorized, on be-
half of the Board, to make, levy, and collect the said special
rate of 0·6d. in the pound as aforesaid in respect of the said
rateable property in that part of the said St. Martin’s Tram-
way Special Rating Area as lies within the jurisdiction of the
said Heathcote County Council.
The above special order was made at a special meeting
of the Board called for that purpose on the 15th day of
July, 1918, and confirmed at an ordinary meeting held this
12th day of August, 1918.
FRANK THOMPSON,
General Manager and Secretary,
Christchurch Tramway Board.

WAIROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING
HELD ON THE 12TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1918.
IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and
of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Wairoa
Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Wairoa
Borough Council Bridge Loan, £1,500, 1918, authorized to be
raised by the Wairoa Borough Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying the Council's
proportion of costs for re decking the Wairoa Bridge, widening
the drawspan of same, and for flood-protection works, the
said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-
eighth of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value
(on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable pro-
perty in the Wairoa Borough; and that such special rate
shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of
such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of September
during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six
years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
The common seal of the Wairoa Borough Council was
hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution
of the Wairoa Borough Council, in the presence of—
JOHN MAYO, Mayor.
R. T. ESTHER, Clerk.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
I, GRACE STEVENSON, Bachelor of Medicine and of
Surgery, now residing in Dunedin, hereby give notice
that I intend applying on the 15th August, 1918, to have
my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion
of New Zealand ; and that I have deposited the evidence of
my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and
Deaths at Dunedin.
GRACE STEVENSON, M.B., Ch.B.
Dated at Dunedin 15th August, 1918.
In the matter of a Bill intituled “An Act to authorize the
Supreme Court during the life of John Donald Macfarlane,
a Mental Patient, found lunatic on inquisition, now an
inmate of the Ashburn Hall Private Mental Hospital,
Dunedin, Otago, to grant administration of his estate as
if he were dead on the date of the coming into operation
of this Act, so as to bring his Will into immediate opera-
tion and to make provision out of his estate for his
maintenance and comfort during the remainder of his
natural life, and also for the payment of the expenses of
this Act, and also to provide that for all purposes of such
administration and of the distribution of his estate all
his six children shall be deemed to be alive on the said
date.”
NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of
the Legislature Act, 1908, relating to Private Estate
Bills, and of the Standing Orders of the General Assembly of
New Zealand relating to Private Bills, that application will
be made to the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parlia-
ment assembled at its next session on behalf of—
MARGARET HART MACFARLANE, of Hawkswood, Amuri,
Canterbury, New Zealand, Wife of the said JOHN
DONALD MACFARLANE: and
JOHN FREDERIC MACFARLANE, of Hawkswood aforesaid,
Sheep-farmer, HUGH MILLER MACFARLANE, DOUGLAS
GRAHAME MACFARLANE, and WALTER ANGUS MAC-
FARLANE, all three of Hawkswood aforesaid, Sheep-
farmers, now absent from New Zealand on active
service as members of His Majesty's New Zealand
Expeditionary Force (Mounted Rifles), and FLORENCE
AGNES MACFARLANE and ANNE RUTH MACFARLANE,
both of Hawkswood aforesaid, Spinsters, being the
four sons and two daughters and being all the
children of the said John Donald Macfarlane,--
for leave to introduce a Bill to be intituled "An Act to autho-
rize the Supreme Court during the life of John Donald Mac-
farlane, a Mental Patient, found lunatic on inquisition, now
an inmate of the Ashburn Hall Private Mental Hospital,
Dunedin, Otago, to grant administration of his estate as if
he were dead on the date of the coming into operation of this
Act, so as to bring his Will into immediate operation and to
make provision out of his estate for his maintenance and
comfort during the remainder of his natural life, and also for
the payment of the expenses of this Act, and also to provide